INVESTIGATIONS: The Man Who Wrote a Book

The long-run melodrama When Did You
Stop Beating Anti-Communists? (Senator Joseph McCarthy, producer,
director and star) introduced a new performer last week. He was Reed
Harris, 43, deputy administrator of the International Information
Administration, which includes the Voice of America. Witness Harris
showed a bureaucrat's tendency to engage in long-winded arguments with
his pursuers; nevertheless, when the curtain fell, he was still ahead
of the bloodhounds.

What made Harris an especially inviting quarry was that back in 1932 he
had a hasty, hot-eyed book, King Football, which damned the colleges
for...